1. Finish reading "Civi Disobedience", taking notes on the rhetoric.
2. Respond to the following questions, but not write a book! Answer clearly and concisely, and in complete sentences. Ensure that each answer ties into the text.
What role does the "state" play in your life? Do you have a contract or an "implied contract with the state? Consider "state" in its broadest sense: country, religion, business, school.
Select any passage from "Civil Disobedience" that especially provokes, stuns, annoys, amuses, or confuses you. Discuss why you choose the passage.
What do you owe the state? When you do have the right or even the obligation to rebel against the state? What does Thoreau say about this?
What is more important? The state or the individual? What happens when we rephrase the question: "What is more important? Autonomy or interdependency? Community or society? Is any person above the law? Socrates asked, "Ought a man to do what he admits to be right, or ought he to betray the right? Is the concept of civil disobedience above the law?
Does the United States have a tradition of civil disobedience? Indeed, does "rebellion" define our character?
2. Respond to the following questions, but not write a book! Answer clearly and concisely, and in complete sentences. Ensure that each answer ties into the text.
http://www.viterbo.edu/perspgs/faculty/GSmith/civildisobedience.html